The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word ‘fed” was scrawled on the dead man’s chest.

The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation.

Investigators are still trying to determine whether the death was a killing or a suicide, and if a killing, whether the motive was related to his government job or to anti-government sentiment. (emphasis mine)

The Teabagosphere is worried… no, not about the victim and his family (what were you thinking!?), but about whether the murder might make them look bad.

Well absolutely, which is why I bolded the “whether the motive was related to his government job or to anti-government sentiment” part of the quote. But it should at least be a warning of where all the escalating rhetoric eventually goes.

The way I see it, either (1) Sparkman’s government job really was the motive, or else (2) the killer(s) considered Sparkman’s government job to be a plausible blind — which would mean they expected other people to just naturally understand why someone would want to kill a government worker. It’s really bad either way.

Chet – Yeah, I was also thinking drugs, and maybe they wanted people to think the motive was anti-government sentiment (the “blind”). You’re right, this highlights something else really disturbing — that whoever did it knows the anti-government hysteria is so bad that this would seem to be an acceptable explanation.